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The personification of the world, and a secondary consort of Viṣnu. In mythology, she frequently needs saving from the asuras and other threats. For instance, when a daitya throws her into the ocean, she is rescued on his tusks by Varāha, Viṣṇu's boar avatāra; and at the outset of the Mahābhārata the gods take human form specifically to relieve the burden of the goddess Earth, who is being afflicted by the asuras. She is not usually worshipped independently.